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We’re sharing real STEM professional letters to pre-scientists annotated by LPS teachers to provide STEM pen pals with inspiration and ideas for their own letters. We asked our 2021-22 LPS teachers to pick a letter that stood out to them and tell us why. We hope this series serves as a resource for pen pals …
by Jenelle Whitman
We’re sharing real STEM professional letters to pre-scientists annotated by LPS teachers to provide STEM pen pals with inspiration and ideas for their own letters. We asked our 2021-22 LPS teachers to pick a letter that stood out to them and tell us why. We hope this series serves as a resource for pen pals …
by Jenelle Whitman
We’re sharing real STEM professional letters to pre-scientists annotated by LPS teachers to provide STEM pen pals with inspiration and ideas for their own letters. We asked our 2021-22 LPS teachers to pick a letter that stood out to them and tell us why. We hope this series serves as a resource for pen pals …
by Jenelle Whitman 
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” (Note to teachers: you’re not crazy; things have definitely changed.) Returning to normal in education is not happening. Normal is long gone. It has actually been in our rearview mirror for some time. Teachers were just able to conveniently ignore the fact that the ways students …
by Jenelle Whitman 
published in Science Sandbox News by Omar Vera https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2021/12/15/youve-got-snail-mail-how-letters-from-stem-professionals-are-changing-young-lives/
by Jenelle Whitman 
I don’t remember how I came across Letters to a Pre-Scientist in 2014; maybe a friend posted it, or maybe a lab colleague suggested it as a cool outreach opportunity. I just remember that I found out too late to participate that year, so all I could do was read the newsletters and wait until …
by Jenelle Whitman 
Distance learning creates novel issues for teaching and learning while exacerbating existing issues. Non-teachers tend to focus on the remote aspect of the situation. They ask about how we engage students who are at home. They ask about amusing things they’ve heard about distance learning like how students sometimes forget to mute their microphones before …
by Jenelle Whitman 
When Macon Lowman and I founded the Letters to a Pre-Scientist pen pal program back in 2010, we had a simple goal: get students talking to scientists. Macon wanted to connect her 6th-graders to mentors who could show them the wide world of possibilities available to them through science–and education more broadly. “Most of my …
by Jenelle Whitman 
This past summer, the Letters to a Pre-Scientist program’s mission got a refresh. Our original mission was to demystify STEM careers and empower all students to see themselves as future scientists. After many years of program growth, it was time to revisit this guiding statement and make sure it still aligned with our long term …
by Lucy 
This week’s Scientist Spotlight features Lyra Morina, a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Immunology in Washington, D.C. Our Scientist Spotlight series features STEM professionals who volunteer in our pen pal program, Letters to a Pre-Scientist. Lyra hopes to become a physician-scientist, working with patients and also in a lab, by earning an MD-PhD. In the mean time, …
by hannahem 
This week’s Scientist Spotlight features Brittany Killingbeck, a graduate student studying Ecosystem Restoration at Niagara College in Ontario, Canada. Our Scientist Spotlight series features STEM professionals who volunteer in our pen pal program, Letters to a Pre-Scientist. Brittany’s favorite part about her job is working outside and watching sites transform into a healthy ecosystem that were previously …
by Jenelle Whitman 
This week’s Scientist Spotlight features Angharad Jones, the collections officer at Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Center in the United Kingdom. Our Scientist Spotlight series features STEM professionals who volunteer in our pen pal program, Letters to a Pre-Scientist. Angharad, like many others, didn’t know that she wanted to pursue a career in STEM until …
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